Yesterday was another 70 degree day, so we took G to the newly opened city park to scope out the grounds.
We were delighted to see numerous patches of bluebonnets …
a stage for live music, lots of new trees, and best of all, fun playgrounds …
with an obstacle course, among other things (click the icon to play a time-lapse video) …
But what especially caught my eye was the grain revealed in the natural wood beams …
So I zeroed in on one section …
sketched it in water erasable marker onto naturally dyed cotton and irregularly stitched over the lines with a very fine silk/cotton floss …
Another memory made …
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Love how you imitated nature, always a source of inspiration.
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I was surprised that there wasn’t a textural difference, but the lines danced visually
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Love the way the daily comes to you! When I saw the first pic, my thought was Oooh, chenille! The playground looks great! I couldn’t play the video, it had a label that said it was corrupt. 😦
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Ugh … it isn’t any comfort knowing there are other bloggers dealing with gremlins
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L – just amazing how often nature inspires us and gives us a template for our work. Go well. B
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I dare say I could do an entire year’s worth of patches on nothing but
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Fabulous time lapse Liz (it worked for me) and I love your interpretation of the woodgrain. There is also something about the immediacy that I am enjoying – see it do it; whereas I sit and mull and ponder and maybe a year down the track may respond! So a lesson to explore being more responsive lies in there for me I think…go well.
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I’m glad to know the video is playing on at least some devices … I wish I could figure out why so many of the blog platforms have been wonky recently
and full disclosure: this project has been “cooking” in my mind for all the years since I made the Remember 2016 cloth, but (I hope) I’m finally ready to take up the daily challenge again
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Wow your beautifully stitched woodgrain works purrfectly!
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this project will surely prompt me to observe my world more closely …
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I love this idea- this morning as I walked out to get the paper from the post box on the street- I saw many different animal tracks in the snow. I smiled to see the tiny cat from next door had come right up onto the porch- to see if husband was anywhere around to give him a nice scratch behind the ears. Deer, chipmunks etc made up the rest. We have no wild rabbits in Maine but years ago we regularly saw raccoons.
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I’m surprised you have no wild rabbits in Maine … here, one of my great delights is spotting a jackrabbit … their impossibly long ears make it easy to see how jackalope stories arose
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